Sports Nutrition with Certified Dietitian Susan Kitchen
With 35 years of experience as a registered, licensed, Sports Certified Dietitian and an accomplished endurance athlete, Susan brings a unique combination of nutrition science and real racing experience.
She’ll guide you in building sustainable eating habits, a healthy relationship with food, a positive body image, and fueling/hydration practices that elevate your athletic performance. Along the way, she’ll help you break through barriers that may not be possible on your own, while supporting your mental and physical health.
Performance Nutrition
Susan advocates a diet built around nutrient-dense, whole foods—without unnecessary supplements and fad diets. Nutrition is a science, and her guidance as a sport nutrition expert reflects this. With so much (mis)information and pseudo-science out there, she can help you navigate through the latest hype so that you can focus on training and racing. Rather than calorie counting, or having a “bad” food list, she offers safe, realistic and sustainable eating strategies to help you meet your health and athletic goals.
To achieve lasting results, Susan emphasizes a multi-disciplinary behavioral approach that examines all areas of your life—not just diet—to help you achieve optimal health and performance. Your body is unique. Your nutrition plan should be, too. Race Smart provides a range of nutrition services tailor-made for your goals and health needs.
Daily Nutrition Specialities:
- Balanced meals/snacks
- Nutrient timing
- Body composition
- Nutrition for the athlete with diabetes
- Nutrition for the athlete with celiac
- Anti-inflammatory nutrition
- Meal planning for a busy, on the go lifestyle
- Eating to support endurance training
- Control food cravings
- Sound strategies for overcoming disordered eating
- Analyzing blood work for health and athletic excellence
Sports Nutrition
Whether you’re a year-round swimmer, professional athlete, or a weekend warrior, fueling your body well is vital to your athletic success. Maybe you’ve been sidelined in the past by the pitfalls of improper nutrition: dehydration, cramping, “bonking,” GI distress, unintentional weight gain/loss, lethargy, or overeating. Steer clear of these common training hazards with Susan’s easy-to-adapt expertise. Learn how food fuels the body and how to support your unique metabolic needs before, during, and after training with the right combination of macronutrients—that is, carbohydrate, protein, and fat—timed for optimal performance and recovery. Susan’s plans are personalized for your weight and body composition goals, as well as your training cycle.
Sport Nutrition Specialities:
- Race week/day fueling
- Endurance and ultra-endurance sport nutrition
- Optimizing Recovery
- Minimizing GI distress
- Hydration/fueling in various environmental conditions
- Sweat rate and electrolyte loss testing
- Sport nutrition products and application
- Sports supplements
- Analyzing blood work for health and athletic excellence
- Meeting energy needs while preparing for an endurance/ultra event
- Taper nutrition
- Carbohydrate Loading
“Thank you for all your help! The hydration and fueling plan significantly improved my race time! Your support was crucial in achieving my goal!”
“Susan has been an incredible resource for me, providing invaluable expertise in IRONMAN fueling on two occasions. Her knowledge was pivotal in making the nutrition aspect of my IRONMAN race a success!”
“Training with Susan is a dream come true! She can build your spirits instantly just by going out together for a run, all the while creating long-term, actionable & achievable goals with her tremendous knowledge and years of experience. Whether your goal is to run a mile or a 100 miles, a sprint triathlon or full Ironman, she has the expertise to get you there!”
